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• Taste cannot be controlled by law.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Controlled

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 1: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.138

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• Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Lying, Differences, Causes

  "Of Opinions". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

  Alexander Pope

  Design, Sublime, Genius

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• All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life Is, Disputes, Tasting

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.101, Oxford University Press

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• We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

  Charles Lamb

  Remember, Ancient

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• Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

  Edith Sitwell

  Fashion, Vices, Worst

  "The Last Years of a Rebel: A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Edith Sitwell, 1967.

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• Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.

  Madame de Stael

  Writing, Would Be, Genius

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• Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.

  Sara Genn

  Example, Artistic

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• Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

  William Shenstone

  Good Nature, Connected

  William Shenstone (1794). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.96

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• Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.

  William Shenstone

  Fashion, Expenses, Pursued

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.248

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• Taste is improved by cultivation.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Cultivation

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• Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Civilization, Nasty, Accepting

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

  Henry James

  Two, Recognition, Emotion

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.12847, Delphi Classics

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• Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine,
  Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine.
  Better be born with taste to little rent
  Than the dull monarch of a continent;
  Without this bounty which the gods bestow,
  Can Fortune make one favorite happy?
  No.

  John Armstrong

  Dull, Littles, Blunt

  John Armstrong, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Armstrong and Johnson”, p.89

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• Elegance is elimination.

  Cristobal Balenciaga

  Fashion, Clothes, Style

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• It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.

  Bradley Nowell

  Music, People, Singers

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• The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

  Hakim Bey

  Wine, Sight, Water

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• We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

  Pierre Corneille

  Sadness, Perfect, Joy

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• I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.

  Yves Klein

  Mother, Earth, Milk

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• All our tastes are but reminiscences.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

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• In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Art, Maturity, Perfect

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• Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Appreciation, Art, Genius

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• Taste is the next gift to genius.

  James Russell Lowell

  Genius, Next

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.53

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• Good taste consists first upon fitness.

  George William Curtis

  Firsts, Good Taste

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• It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

  William Shenstone

  Wit, Good Nature, Connected

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.183

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